Friends of the Glorious Cross of Dozulé

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Friends of the Glorious Cross of Dozulé
Country France
Denomination Catholicism
Website www.ressource.fr/
Clergy
Senior pastor(s) Albert Delbauche, Madeleine Aumont

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Friends of the Glorious Cross of Dozulé (Amis de la Croix Glorieuse de Dozulé) is a Christian movement founded in the 1980s in the Calvados département, France. It is based on a series of supposed private revelations received in Dozulé in the 1970s.

In 1995, the Friends of the Glorious Cross of Dozulé were considered a cult in the 1995 parliamentary report on cults, and by anti-cult associations (ADFI, CCMM).

History

File:SantaRitaCrossAndParishChurch.jpg
Cross of Dozulé replica.

The movement was founded on 2 April 1982 in Saint-Quentin by Albert Delbauche,[1] a professor of yoga, after receiving many apparitions and messages by Jesus. He predicted the end of the world, preceding by many catastrophes, and published Le Message de Dozulé which contains the doctrine of the group. He confirmed as true the prophecies of Madeleine Aumont,[2] a family mother who claimed to have received 49 miraculous interventions, 38 of them from Christ, between 28 March 1972 and 6 October 1978, in Dozulé, Calvados.[3] In late 1982, the Apocalypse was announced as imminent, and the followers took refuge in Loire-Atlantique.[4] According to the founder, several precautions should have been followed to be saved.[5] After the failure of the prophecy, many members left the group and began to publicly criticize it.[6] The group is now under the leadership of a woman self-named JNSR.[7]

In the 1990s, there were between 80 and 500 followers,[8] but 6,000 pilgrims came in Dozulé from Belgium and the Netherlands. Claude Vorhilon, founder of the Raëlism, made a pilgrimage to Dozulé and said Aumont's revelations were actually messages from aliens. Today, nearly 20 others associations are active to promote the messages of Dozulé.[7]

Beliefs and practices

The purpose of the movement is to collect donations, to organize pilgrimages in Dozulé and to build in this village a 738-meter lighted cross, a purification tank and a sanctuary. The movement wants to establish in France a thousand crosses of this model, but reduced to 1/100 (7.38 meters), illuminated in blue and white.[9] There are about 7,000 crosses in the world, some of them in New Caledonia[10] and the Réunion (35-40 crosses).[11]

Controversies

In 1995, the group was considered as a cult in the 1995 parliamentary report on cults,[12] and by anti-cult associations (ADFI, CCMM), notably because of its apocalypticism.[13] In 1985, the bishop of Bayeux publicly condemned the message of Dozulé[14] which is not recognized by the Catholic Church[15] and thus considered as a "pseudo-catholic cult".[8] In addition, the project of erecting giant crosses sometimes received some opposition,[16] particularly in Haute-Garonne and Loiret.[17] Several crosses were destroyed, as in Essonne.[18]

References

  1. ↑ The Annotated Dictionary of Modern Religious Movements, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, 1994, p. 28
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  14. ↑ Les sociétés secrètes et les sectes, Jean-Pierre Bayard, 1997, p.187
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